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Job Description We're looking for a Technical Lead to help shape the future of our technology landscape. This is an opportunity to combine strategic technical leadership with people leadership, guiding engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable and high-quality solutions that create positive outcomes for our customers and business. Working across multiple teams, you'll influence architectural direction, champion engineering excellence and support the development of talented engineers in a collaborative and inclusive environment. What you'll be doing: • Defining and leading engineering strategy and long-term technical direction across the technology estate • Driving quality engineering standards through automation, testing practices and governance frameworks • Promoting secure-by-design principles and embedding security best practice across teams and platforms • Establishing and evolving observability capabilities including logging, metrics, tracing and alerting • Championing metrics-led engineering to improve delivery performance, reliability and customer outcomes • Providing technical guidance on complex engineering challenges and high-impact decisions • Influencing architecture, tooling and investment decisions to support long-term business objectives • Mentoring, developing and empowering engineers while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and inclusion Who we're looking for: • Significant experience providing technical leadership across complex engineering environments • Strong knowledge of cloud-native technologies, serverless architectures and microservices patterns • Expertise in quality engineering, automated testing strategies and CI/CD practices • Strong understanding of secure software development principles and security frameworks • Experience implementing observability strategies using logging, metrics, tracing and alerting tools • Proven ability to influence stakeholders and communicate complex technical concepts clearly • Experience coaching, mentoring and developing high-performing engineering teams • Technical expertise in technologies such as Java, AWS, Spring Framework, Node.js, Docker and modern Agile delivery practices Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: • The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes • Generous pension contribution • Life assurance • Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only) • At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday • Competitive family leave • Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only) • There are many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online • We’re creating net‑zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in‑person experience